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• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  in the garage and I use it to get to A to B. My car at college rests in ... had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... ,000 resident city-within-a-city, so we rarely had to leave. For my sophomore

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  hours a day? When I get back, I'll give you the play-by-play of each day ... (the out-of-towners are exploring Boston) so I'm taking a minute to say ... experiences in this profession have given me a ton of stuff to think about

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  taking as much time as needed to get the job done right.   Of those 33 ... and pastoralism — they are united by a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  vacation and professors were trying to get to a stopping point before ... where we had to lay out a detailed game plan for our final project. I had ... unexpected good news yesterday from my UROP supervisor—I get to attend CHI

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang ... ’s fall but the weather is still nice. We go to a nice part of campus and just eat some food and joke around.” As you might be able to tell by

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  . So I set a reminder to drop by S^3 the following Monday, and stocked up ... place. By the time I got around to actually having the energy to write a ... and ready to start (and finish) the 7.012 PSET. Instead, I woke up a few

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I ... to those deferred, you've got a good chance of getting in later! ... , weren't even plowed, but I managed to score a ham/sausage/cheese omelette

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of ... a transcript of the email that was sent this morning: From: Erin To ... : Some more great pi(e) references: A pretty sweet video posted by Corey

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  Lechmere Green Line T stop. You just get off the T and walk a mile next to ... right on the Massachusetts Bay, and I always get a little nervous on the ... is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  waitlist became a reality. We worked all day today as a subcommittee to ... waitlist again this year? It is too early to know. In a week or two, we ... offered a spot on the waitlist to just under 400 people, and most of those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  walking into the MEng thoughts about a 63-mile trek

  

  ="Residential EXploration, where first-year students get to explore all the dorms with a lot ... baskets, what is possible when I get to take a little more time to recover ... first steps on a 63-mile walk from Maine to Next House, an Odyssey which

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 8, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  By Chris Mills '12 It's 3:30 a.m. I have to leave to get to the ... . We decide to grab some breakfast and her mom instinct kicks in by ... visiting Boston, so I told him about getting into MIT and CPW. After a brief

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  bad), we managed to get the chunks into the moat, grabbed a few branches ... starts getting cold you will probably see a noticeable change in my ... this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had ... something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Great Gatsby In all its pixelated glory

  

  , you should go out to the library and get a copy now! It's a great read ... . If you're a little sad that you can't actually be on campus to enjoy ... While browsing through my news feed the other day, I came upon a post

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the ... worry about this. In a case where we need to see a mid-year report and it has not been received, we will personally contact your school to get it

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  Valley with a population over 4,000 students. How did you get to MIT? I ... shouldn’t be able to get into a top school too. So in 10th grade, MIT ... officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  by Cody C. '14 When it comes to politics, there is one argument that ... process by which projects come to fruition, and how very political those ... my time in school, and he told me about his efforts to get his friends

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  CASE: Identity and Intersectionality and some bunnies if you hate everything else about this post

  

  dictated by the circumstances of one's birth. ????? You don't get to choose if you're black, white, or somewhere in between. You don't get to ... adjust to life at an institution like MIT. I regret that I didn't get to go

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  problem, and find a new way in getting to where you want to be. It is true ... you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a ... years, and he realized that it is time to pick a successor. He gathered

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009